Graduation Issue for Batch 2019

HI-LITES

GRADUATION ISSUE for batch 2019

HI-LITES EDITORIAL BOARD

EDITOR’S NOTE

Editor-in-Chief Katrina Moñozca

March 31st. Whether or not Senior High will be the best two years of your life, you’re looking forward to this day.

Don’t leave too quickly though—in the days leading up to grad, remember to say goodbye to your teachers, friends, and juniors (aw), revisit your favorite spots in Katipunan, and be thankful for your stay. We sure are grateful for yours.

Associate Editor Kristina Jao Managing Editor for Print Media Nathaniel Mariano Managing Editor for Online Media Andrea Medina News Editors Ethan Galvan Lexi Lagamon Probe Editor Carey Baisas Features Editor Shan Porras Broadcast Editor Rebecca Filasol Chief Photojournalists Stella Arenas Marcus Garcia Special Thanks To: Mika de Guzman ASHS Sanggunian Niño Albano and Jinno Del Rosario Aloi Tuprio and Paolo Lukban Gap Estrella and Kara Angan Mary Gabaton and Josh Diano Mrs. Maria Victoria Dimalanta Moderators Ms. Caroline Laforteza Mr. Enzo Pisig

Dearest Seniors,

It’s been an honor sharing the same building, and even better to have gotten to know even just some of you. It’s not the school-sanctioned activities that have brought our batches closer together, but the spontaneous moments in which we get to laugh and chat with you—for that we say THANK YOU. Even if we’re just a year level apart, it feels as though your experiences and maturity are impossible to match.

As juniors, we are beyond grateful for the guidance each senior has given us—heading orgs and committees, leading teams, giving advice, and simply being present.

Your presence has inspired us to be the new batch of leaders, learners, Seniors.

Goodbye and thank you, Batch 2019! We love you!

With love, Kat Moñozca

CONTENTS 01 A Letter from the Principal 04 General Academic (GA) Strand ShorSem Pictures 05 Letters from the GA Chairpersons 06 Humanities and Social Sciences (HumSS) Strand ShorSem Pictures 07 A Letter from the HumSS Chairpersons 10 Accountancy and Business Management (ABM) Strand ShorSem Pictures 11 Letters from the ABM Chairpersons 12 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Strand ShorSem Pictures 13 Letters from the STEM Chairpersons 14 Craziest Rumors Ever Heard 15 Worst Experiences in the Senior High School 16 Famous Senior Tweets 20 Without Borders 24 Seniors’ Spread

A LETTER FROM THE PRINCIPAL To My Dear Students of Batch 2019, Your batch will forever be special in my heart because you are the batch of graduates during my first year in the Senior High School. I am immensely blessed to have crossed paths with you even for only a few memorable and intense months.

I may not have gotten to know each one of you personally, but I will always treasure the events we celebrated, planned and unplanned. Believe it or not, I enjoyed the times when we would run into each other– those little everyday moments we shared–even if it was only a brief “hello” at the lobby, or a quick “kumustahan” in the corridor. At the concerts, games, or even recess-time videoke and zumba, your energy and positivity never failed to enliven me. My dear Batch 2019, those small and big moments we shared made my life this school year genuinely rich and colorful. Thank you.

I know that you are looking forward to life after Senior High School with mixed feelings. Some of you may be sad to leave your classmates and friends, while the rest may be excited for what the future holds as you move on to college. For those of you who feel disappointed you did not get into the school you wanted: I shared with you that I had the same experience when I was not accepted at the University of the Philippines. I was shocked at being rejected and was depressed for weeks at the thought of settling for another school named the Ateneo de Manila.

Can you imagine the gladness and gratitude I now feel for that painful rejection? It was truly a blessing in disguise, a life detour. Why? Spending my college years at the Ateneo was the beginning of the best road trip of my life. Ateneo became more than a school to me. It turned out to be the gateway through which a multitude of blessings came my way. It was where I met my husband along with many lifelong friends, where all my children received their education, and where I taught and was enriched by thousands of Ateneo Grade School boys. The school I reluctantly settled for became the birthplace not only of a fulfilling teaching vocation and dynamic friendships with the Jesuits, but of an active and practical spirituality that made me alert to God’s wonders and life’s mysteries, deepened my prayer life, guided me in good decision-making, and inspired me to a cheerful life of service to others.

Decades later, after 41 years, here I am, still with the Ateneo. The once-proud high school graduate who thought her plans were the best is now a high school principal who learned that God’s plan is absolutely the best one. Our good Lord called me to take a different path, I said “yes,” and then He brought me to unexpected places where I was most happy.

Your last year is my first year…what an uplifting encounter! I saw how you worked and I am so proud of your achievements and who all of you have become as you overcame the numerous challenges in Senior High School life. By your own effort, the guidance of your parents and teachers, and by the grace of God, you have learned how to live out en todo amar y servir, to LOVE and to SERVE. My dear Batch 2019, thank you for showing me how to be more passionate and how to live in the springtime of one’s life. Now go out, FLY HIGH, and may our paths cross once again.

MRS. MARIA VICTORIA P. DIMALANTA

Principal of the Ateneo Senior High School, AY 2018-2019

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THE GENERAL ACADEMIC STRAND

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A LETTER FROM THE GA CHAIRPERSON Dear GA 2019, Finally, we have made it. After all the sleepless nights studying for quizzes and finishing papers, presentations and reports, after all the meetings before and after school and even during breaks and weekends preparing for an event or a project, after spending a lot of time and resources finishing your artwork or your new song, after all the practices early in the morning or late at night for your play or game or competition, our Senior High School journey in the Ateneo has finally come to an end. We have finally reached the endgame of our high school lives, and you have truly inspired me to always strive for greatness and be passionate in everything that I do. Being a witness to the many achievements of our strand in different fields has definitely been a live-giving experience after our life-depleting struggles. As we enter a new chapter of our lives, let us continue to have that same passion and drive to achieve our goals that have really helped us unite as a strand. It has been an honor to serve you and to serve with you as your GA Strand Chairperson.

Always in your loving service, Aloi Tuprio GA Strand Chairperson, AY 2018-2019

A LETTER FROM THE GA VICE-CHAIRPERSON To our ates and kuyas, It’s the end. We’ve only known each other for one school year, but that one school year made all the difference. You made GA not just a strand, but our home for the rest of our stay in the ASHS. You pushed us to always be better by striving to be maGAling and to keep on giving, without asking for reward, walang hangGAn. You helped make GA a family. You are our friends and role models.

We hope that your stay here in the ASHS is something you’ll always look back on. We hope that the memories you made here will always be in your hearts. When you leave this school, please never forget to do everything for the greater glory of God, continue to be maGAling in all that you do, and to always give with walang hangGAn. Do everything for the right reasons, for the right people, and at the right time. Always champion the right and never the wrong.

Love the people around you. Do everything with love and passion. When you go into the next chapter of your lives, do not forget this. You may not remember your formulas from statistics, how to construct a proper argument, the difference between a hazard and a disaster, business plans, presentations, and so on. As long as you remember to love with all your heart and all your soul, you will be great in everyone’s eyes.

Goodbye Batch 2019. We wish you the best of luck in college and in everything you’ll be doing in the future.

Always keep in your heart all the memories that made you the person you are today. Congratulations Batch 2019 and paalam. #walang hanGAn #maGAling Love, Paolo Lukban GA Strand Vice-Chairperson, SY 2018-2019

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THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES STRAND

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A LETTER FROM THE HUMSS CHAIRPERSONS Take a deep breath and look around.

The Covered Courts you’ve known and loved in these 2 years is painted new shades of blue. The stage is set and the chairs are arranged. Gone are the Junior High boys playing sports at the back of courts—you won’t see them for a while.

It’s just one day. One more day in the campus you’ve grown to love. But today, you know that it’s different.

Today, you’re standing on the edge of the diving board and are inches close from plunging into a completely different ocean of problems, expectations, communities and more.

UPCAT results. College confirmation. Studying ahead. Registering for classes. Arranging schedules. Finding ways on how to make friends, again. In the flurry of all the new decisions you have to make over the summer, take the time to close your eyes and remember the 10 months that now feel like 10 seconds.

10 Ten months since you’ve walked through the ASHS halls as a senior. Excitement and apprehension met you as you played thousands of different scenarios as to how your final year here would be like. Classes you’re going to take, friends, old and new, that you’re going to see, and memories you’ll cherish for a lifetime.

With a whole brand new adventure waiting for you, either just across campus, or maybe in an entirely different one...

It’s not as scary as it seems.

9 Nine Specialized Subjects. World Religions and Belief Systems. Disciplines in Applied Social Sciences.

Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking. Philippine Politics and Governance. Community Engagement, Creative Writing. Malikhaing Pagsusulat. Creative Nonfiction. Malikhaing Pagsasanaysay. It was just 9 subjects but you felt like you wrote 500 papers. Some people would joke that the defining experience of HumSS 12 was writing, and lots of it. All the late nights spent racking your head for different synonyms and conjunctions, the hours spent staring at a blank paper or computer screen, all the drafts that eventually ended in your Recycle Bin: it felt like your burnout would last forever.

But you’re here. And you survived.

College comes with the promise of even longer papers, more overlapping deadlines, and possibly more burnouts. At the end of your stay here at ASHS… It’s not as scary as it seems.

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8 Eight hours. That’s how long they said an average human being should be sleeping on a daily basis. Wrong.

Having to balance your academic workload, extra curricular activities, social life, emotional stability, and have time for yourself? Not exactly doable if you had to spend a third of the day asleep. Despite all the warnings, you powered through whatever life had to throw at you, and came out an even stronger individual.

After your eyebags have finally fixed themselves, the next four or so years will come with even more gruesome ordeals.

College?

It’s not as scary as it seems.

7 Seven days. That’s how long your school week was. Even though you technically only wore your ID and uniform for five of those seven, the thought of school bled through just having to sit in the classroom. Requirements went past those four walls, and seeped even into your own home. Your mind raced throughout the weekend, thinking, going over your to-do list, and thinking some more: Have I forgotten to do anything?

With the rush came the lessons on how to juggle everything and anything at any time, lessons that proved, and continue to prove to be extremely useful. ASHS forged you through fire and cooled you through sweat.

Suddenly, 8 - 5 days don’t seem so bad anymore.

It’s not as scary as it seems.

6 Six years. Your whole high school stay was anything but easy. Regardless of where you came from, what your story is, and what your dreams were, the fact remains that the person you are today had to go through several makeovers to make to where you’re standing right now. Some of you may have had to adjust, despite being in Ateneo your entire lives, some may have come into HumSS to escape the grasps of science high schools, others had to leave their families behind in order to chase their dreams of studying here, yet through it all, you’re in your toga, and about to get that diploma.

The past six years of your life have built up to this moment, and have prepared you for the next chapter of your life. Remembering that, and suddenly…

It’s not as scary as it seems.

5 Five minute breaks. In your whole stay here, it seemed as if this was your only time to take a breather. Those extra five minutes to take a nap, cram, or in very dire situations that happened more often than they were supposed to, scream. An integral part to the entire Ateneo Senior High experience, those five minutes were sometimes all you needed just to get through the day.

So compose yourself, take a deep breathe, and remind yourself…

It’s not as scary as it seems.

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4 Four strands in the Senior High. An amazing, diverse, and life-giving group inside four walls. While we lived and thrived in our own strands, the busy-ness and interconnectedness of the Ateneo Senior High experience brought all four together. You met with people from GA, STEM, and ABM, and maybe, you formed lifelong friendships that spanned classrooms or floors. You know that you didn’t need to see them everyday to know that they were just as important to you. These people—these friends that you’ve met are people you’ve learned to love for the rest of your life. And you know that even if college is a new chapter and brings about new beginnings…

It’s not as scary as it seems.

3 Three sections. Kibe. Miki. Navarro. In the hustle and bustle that was senior year, and whether you liked it or you liked it, these sections made up your strand, your home. Being the smallest strand not only united us in the big fish bowl that is ASHS, but also pushed us to becoming more than “just HumSS.”

2 Tomorrow. The first day as a High School graduate. The first day no longer spent on having to go to Graduation Practice, or even passing through the walkways of the Pamplona cluster. The first “real” day of Summer.

After a year of lasts, it’s both refreshing and scary to have to go through new firsts all over again. These firsts signal a new start, a new beginning, a chance to start anew.

It’s not as scary as it seems.

1 One. Last. Day. March 31 will be the last time you see your entire batch together in the covered courts; back where it all started. It’s as if it was just yesterday, our SHOrSem mods were dancing to All Stars, and telling us not to be afraid of the adventures that await us in the Senior High; to row into the deep. All the victories, triumphs, heartaches, and catastrophes alike that defined your stay here, are things you should keep with you even after tonight.

Though you might be anxious about what the future has in store for you, focus on the people around you, because your graduation is not going to last forever. As soon as that last person takes their bow and walks down, as soon as that last note of Song For Mary rings, as soon as they say their parting words...it’s all finally over.

Yes, Senior, the future is scary and uncertain. But right now, in this moment…this is your moment.

It’s not as scary as it seems.

God bless, and Godspeed Batch 2019.

GAP ESTRELLA & KARA ANGAN

HumSS Strand Chairperson and HumSS Strand Vice-Chairperson, AY 2018-2019

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THE ACCOUNTANCY AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT STRAND

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A LETTER FROM THE ABM CHAIRPERSONS Batch 2019, Gone are the days you had to memorize the tune of the alphabet. Gone are the days you had to learn how to multiply and divide. Gone are the days when you were just a kid, enjoying the simplest moments of your life.

Look at you now.

Now you know how to balance sheets, create business plans, understand the complexities of the economy, and many more from an endless list. You’ve been through a journey. For most–if not all–a rough journey.

However, this journey is something to be grateful for.

FROM THE JUNIORS To our ABM ates and kuyas, to our idols, to the people we see in the hallways of the ABM Corridor, we are more than proud of you.

You’ll always be the people we look up to. From asking advice for academics, the Senior High School life, and even our own love lives (for some), you’ve never failed to set an example for us juniors. Surely, we will miss you and we know that we have some big shoes to fill as the incoming ABM seniors.

Maraming maraming salamat and congratulations!

FROM THE BATCHMATES To our strandmates, to the people we entered the Ateneo Senior High School with, to the friends we have spent the last two years with: we are really grateful for each and every single one of you.

Thank you for all the times you understood us and what we went through. Thank you for making all the late nights and early mornings bearable and enjoyable. Thank you for making us smile. Thank you for everything. The last two years were not easy, but here we are right now.

We made it!

Now, you are about to start a new chapter of your lives. From creating those business plans, you’ll create even more detailed plans and theses. Soon, those business plans will turn into actual businesses with societal impacts. A lot of responsibilities will come your way, but always remember what you have gained and learned from your stay in the Senior High.

We’re all in this together, ABM. Soar higher!

From, Niño Albano ABM Strand Chairperson, AY 2018-2019 Jinno Del Rosario ABM Strand Vice-Chairperson, AY 2018-2019

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THE SCIENCE, TECHONOLOGY, ENGINEERING, & MATHEMATICS STRAND

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LETTERS FROM THE STEM CHAIRPERSONS This Sunday, as we take our last few steps as high school students, we do so with our heads held high, marching with honor and pride because at last, the future we have always aspired for is now within our grasp. In retrospect to our two-year stay, we look back on the memories of an unparalleled Senior High School experience: We begin with our first few struggles in the rough transition from juniors to seniors—leaving the comforts of our old homes, finding our own niches, and taking shelter in newfound friendships. The surge of workload and the raging difficulty of the subjects were no easy tasks to manage. Nevertheless, we continued to live our lives with the fun, the adventure, and the pursuit for knowledge. We explored the ins and outs of the institution while also being exposed to the bigger world out there.

But Senior High also has its way of humbling us and taking almost everything away from our firm grasps.

How can we forget our first failures or our first barely passing marks if we’re lucky enough? How can we forget the tears shed and pain endured for the past two years over the rigors of having four Maths and three Sciences? There were days and weeks that really wore us out. Despite this, we knew giving up was never an option.

Because after all, we are home. The sense of cama-

As we look back on the year that has been, we remember the fond times we had with you seniors.

Our Grade 11 experience would not have been as fruitful, life-giving, and memorable if not for the wisdom and memories you shared with us. Being a student in the Senior High School has proven to be a very daunting task, and now, as we ourselves enter our final year in the Ateneo, we hope that the image of you graduating in your togas will prove to be an inspiration to us when we undertake more hardships in our future.

You will always be remembered. Senior High will not be the same without seeing you walk these halls, these same halls that we’ve shared with you for a whole school year in the same pale white building that has bloomed. It really won’t be the same not hearing your cheers after a long day of tests, or your cries after a hellish practical. The deafening silence and the emptiness will be the moment that we realize that you all have left. But can we say that you all are truly gone? Can we say that after the legacy that you have left behind, the example you set, the juniors that you have inspired through all the work and effort you put? Yes, in a few days, you will all be graduating. Yes, in a few days, you will be stepping out of the SHS Building and find yourselves in the halls of new classrooms, new buildings, and new schools. But that doesn’t mean that you’re lost

raderie we’ve built within the strand has always been life-giving. Burden was not the only thing shared.

Every exams week, we could see the many selfless volunteers who make reviewers and notes shared around the batch. We could see how we cheered each other up on random blue days through the comforting hugs, reassuring smiles, or in every way possible. Truly, there was never a dull day along the corridors with all the buzz and strand drama. It was even carried outside the school where strand get-togethers were organized. It has always been satisfying to see another side of the strand—away from all the academic and work clamour. It is like knowing that you are not fighting the battle alone and that makes it worth fighting for.

With this, we are immensely grateful. Grateful for the learning, the memories, and the people who have stayed with us throughout our journey. First, to our custodians, staff, and our non-teaching personnel, for maintaining a safe and orderly home. To the administrators and teachers, for patiently and selflessly imparting their wisdom and time to us. To our friends and classmates, for getting both crazy and sad with us and to our family, for being our greatest inspiration.

Alay namin sa inyo ang aming tagumpay.

Mary Gabaton STEM Strand Chairperson, AY 2018-2019 in our hearts. As the graduating Batch of SY 20182019, your names, your achievements, and most of all the impact you have made on juniors like me will be proof enough of what you all have accomplished.

After all the laughing, crying, smiling, frowning, shouting that you did during your two years here in the Senior High School, you will all have to leave that behind to pursue your own goals and passions in life for the Greater Glory of God. But don’t be sad that your Senior High School years are finished, be thankful it all happened.

By the time you graduate, we will be the new seniors.

As we welcome our own juniors, we see ourselves in the same predicament as you did at the start of the school year. Staying can be one of the hardest things a person can do, but the knowledge that you conquered the storm with will push us to face our own challenges and that maybe one day, when we wear our own togas, we’ll have the confidence to say, “We did it!”

It’s been an honor to share half of our Senior High School life with you, BATCH 2019! Hanggang sa muli.

Josh Diano STEM Strand Vice-Chairperson, AY 2018-2019

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H EA R D

CRAZIES T

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We asked some students from the batch to describe the craziest rumors they heard. These are their responses.

“3 boys did something scandalous in my classroom daw lolz”

“If not all the illegal stuff, then I would have to say the whole fiasco about guys doing very unchaste things in the classroom of Oldcorne took the crown and made history. I remember how the day that word had spread, the entirety of STEM (and maybe even other classrooms and strands) started freaking out and from there reached the entirety of the school. I did hear things like names, varying numbers of people, and various accounts of who caught them. I even heard from someone that whole thing was a publicity stunt. Even then, I never knew how or if it even got resolved in the first place.”

“Two people from my strand did “something mysterious” behind the Gesu.”

“Craziest rumor that I heard was the one about some students vaping in their classrooms. I get that some people at my age would vape but I didn’t get why they’d do it in class.”

“I heard that certain food provider was said to have kicked out True Blends because they were unfriendly competition.”

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THE WORST EXPERIENCES IN THE SENIOR HIGHSCHOOL IN TERMS OF THE PEOPLE

My worst experience as a Grade 12 student would probably be when I had to deal with toxic classmates. I’ve met people who didn’t like me before, but they never really bothered me. However, this set of people really got under my skin because they were quite mean in a way that I wasn’t prepared to handle because I hadn’t encountered that level of negativity before.

My worst experience would have to be my time in Grade 11 being surrounded by classmates who were toxic. Even to those I had not even done any wrong towards seemed to harbor a grudge and mistrust against me. I had trouble gaining back the trust of my friends because these toxic classmates just kept trying to pull them away from me with outlandish stories and rumors. It made me feel so isolated and worthless that I had considered skipping school for entire weeks.

I’ve found that the worst experiences I’ve had in Senior High happen in friendships, and arguably even more than in relationships. One person called me too hairy, then told me how people thought I was awkward and needed to lose weight. I took this very badly and I resorted to unhealthy ways to lose weight, but I was just told that “isinasapuso ko masyado.”

IN TERMS OF THE WORKLOAD

Adjusting to the system was a huge challenge for me, and I believe that my Grade 11 year was probably my darkest point in life. I had to face the worst challenges that life had to throw at me, and it was painful. However, I managed to put up a fight and made a huge comeback during senior year!

My worst experience would probably be when I broke down in class once because of all the workload that was given to us. It was bad because I wasn’t able to participate much in class and I was panicking on how to finish requirements and such.

Well, to be honest, the hardest is really the projects and papers that we needed to do. Kasi mostly project based ang maraming subjects–patong-patong siya. Lessons-wise, kayang-kaya, it’s just that you need to put in more work. Given the amount of time we have in school, ang hirap din mag-balance ng sched. I mean, maraming time to do them pero sometimes you underestimate them thinking you can do them at night. You end up with less sleep.

Getting a C+ in Physics for my midterm marks and being super clutch in it for my final marks.

Handling CETs and requirements, or yung time na naghihintay ka na lang for grad kasi ‘senioritis’.

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ET S TW E R

FAMOUS

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O I N E S

HONESTLY,

YA’LL ALREADY KNOW.

WE’VE ALL BEEN THERE.

WHO DOES NOT AGREE?

NAME

YOUR

LONG LIVE, EARTH WARRIORS! 17

OOPS! WRONG PERSON.

REMEMBER TO ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL

SINNERS

WHAT’S A DIET?

THE CHAT..

LEFT

REPEAT UNTIL TRUE.

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CAN’T GRADUATE DON’T UNDERSTAND.

SHAKESPEARE IS SHAKING.

CHRIST IS THE ANSWER

IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THE LAST EXAMEN.

PHYSICS INTO THE PICTURE:

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WITHOUT BORDERS Messages from various members of the Ateneo Senior High School community for the graduating batch.

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Sir Melosantos Teacher

Okay Batch 2019, congrats and God bless you all. I know you will all do well in college. Okay, don’t forget our thrusts in the Ateneo: they will always carry you through, they will always make you fly high. So, do well and work hard, but don’t forget to have fun. Have fun.

Sir Jigs Teacher

I once read an article online about how optimism is a radical choice.

So in the kind of world where we live now, it’s so easy to stay apathetic, to stay resigned, and to believe that everything is just gonna keep getting worse, that problems will never get solved, and that the world is inherently flawed. But like what the article said, I agree that being optimistic, choosing to believe that good changes, that goodness in people is possible, means that you are also willing to act upon that belief. A lot of the changes that happen in society happen because people believe that they are possible. So for the new batch–or for the graduating batch, rather–I’d want to remind them that as they go on, whether it be in college or in a different country, or a different part of their life that they’re going into–that they choose to be optimistic. So that regardless of what problems surround them, what problems they experience, it’s still very much possible for things to change for the better.

Ma’am Cathy Teacher

Para sa pangkat dalawang libo’t labing siyam, nagpapasalamat ako una sa lahat kasi naging paraan sila para higit akong matuto bilang guro. Pero bukod doon, sana ay–ninanais ko, o sabik akong makita silang lumago at patuloy na matuto sa mundong higit nilang gagalawan–yung mas malawak na mundong ipinagkaloob sa kanila ng Panginoon, kung saanman silang dalhin, saanman silang dalhin ng tadhana. Anuman ‘yun, anuman yung magpunta para sa kanila, anuman yung inilalaan para sa kanila, sana lumago sila hindi lang sa pansarili nila, kung hindi para din sa ibang taong pumapaligid at papaligiran pa rin nila.

Ma’am Lacdao ACO Moderator

My dearest Seniors, It was always going to be about hope. We hope in you–for all of us.

Thank you for filling these halls with so much life in these last two years. Now, take all that you are and go to where you are happiest and can serve best.

Make good choices.

You are loved.

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Madame Dator Teacher

My message: bonne chance, good luck. But they say kasi that no one is really lucky because you work hard for it. But knowing how hard you guys work, don’t ever forget that whatever you want, you can achieve, and the stuff that you can’t achieve–there’s always something better. No one ever talks about the value of mistakes and failures. There aren’t any failures and mistakes as long as you learn from them. I sure learned a lot from you guys, and it’s been my honor to have met you. For those of you whom I taught, it’s been my honor.

I love you all–bonne chance, au revoir, merci.

Kuya Franz Security Guard

Sa mga nagtatapos ngayong 2019, i-apply nila kung ano ang kanilang natutunan sa kanilang paaralan at maging isang mabuting mamamayan. Sabi nga ni Rizal, “Ang kabataan ang pag-asa ng ating bayan.” Kaya, maging pag-asa kayo ng ating bayan. Hindi maging pasakit ng ating bayan.

Sir Gab

Teacher and Coach Dear Seniors, you guys already know that–or a lot of people tell you–that high school will be the best years of your life. Make sure you cherish all of your memories that you’ve experienced in the high school, but make sure that high school won’t be the best years of your life. You have the rest of your life to do great things. Make sure you don’t peak in high school, and to always keep doing better things as you grow up. So ‘yun, the main message is to make sure that you have better years ahead. Don’t stay in high school.

Kuya Benigno

Security Guard

Ang mensahe ko lang–sana ‘pag labas nila sa community, kung ano yung mga natutunan nila dito sa campus, dalhin nila. Para maipakita nila kung gaano sila ka-disiplina at ano yung natutunan nila sa campus.

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Mr. Panotes GA Strand Coordinator Dear Seniors, Thank you for all your hard work for the past two years! Congratulations for all your accomplishments.

Thank you for the time you spent with us, sharing with us your laughter and precious life stories.

I will remember you in my prayers. Do remember us in your prayers even as you move on to college.

Mr. Verayo

HumSS Strand Coordinator Okay, so this is going out to Batch 2019: congratulations to all of you. If there’s any message I’d like to extend to all of you, it’s pretty simple: be kind. Just be kind.

Mr. Soriano ABM Strand Coordinator

For the graduating batch of this school year, I hope that you don’t forget the values that we’ve taught you, particularly magis (doing your best), and caring for others (cura personalis). And best of all, continue being servant leaders in whatever field you are going to get into. So, be the shining example for the rest of the people that you encounter there, now matter how difficult it could be. Good luck.

Ma’am Sacluti

STEM Strand Coordinator

Congratulations to Batch 2019. Hoping you the best in college.

I hope that you’ll be able to bring with you the nation values that you’ve learned here in Ateneo Senior High School. To my dearest STEM students, I hope that when you go to college, you bring with you all the maths and sciences that you’ve studied when you were in Senior High School. I know you’ve gone through all the difficulties, but you’ll see the benefit of this when you go to college.

Again, good luck and congratulations.

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THANK YOU UNTIL NE

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U, SENIORS! EXT TIME.

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fly high, seniors!